This project provides micro loans and business training to 50 women "local entrepreneurs" impacted by HIV/AIDS in Zambia. The beneficiaries become self reliant and are able to break the poverty cycle.

Families in the village of Villa Linda will be able to increase their incomes through various economic and agricultural projects and, in turn, buy the land that they are working.

About 700 women each month learn tailoring and how to run a small tailoring business from their homes. Women enter the 6-month course not knowing how to thread a needle; they leave with a livelihood.

Project will provide training and financial booster-shot to small businesses, enabling them to start, expand and become self-sufficient. This assistance will help them to break the cycle of poverty. The beneficiaries receive education / training in business management that helps them succeed in their small businesses. Individuals and businesses become self-sufficient and this boosts economic development. Priority is given to women.

This project aims to replace kerosene lamps with solar-based household lighting (known as Solar Tuki) through an integrated approach of community mobilization and technological intervention.

Supporting the Agros villages of Nicaragua will enable families to increase their incomes through various economic and agricultural projects. The families can then buy the land that they are working.

Project facilitates valuable trade skills training enabling youths and young adults to be gainfully employed and self-sufficient. This training, in high demand, empowers and fills a vital gap. The training / education provided helps to complete their preparation and positions them as people who contribute to national development. Priority is given to women. At the end of the training, participants are provided with tool-kits that hep them start their own businesses.

This project will support former child soldiers, children and families affected by civil war to strengthen their capacity to take more responsibility for their health and wellbeing by providing comprehensive primary and preventive care services, with a mother-child focus. The project will also empower women to reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and socio- cultural practices through skills development, dairy farming and microfinance programs.

This project provides business training and micro-loans for women living with HIV/AIDS in the largest slum area in East Africa, addressing the challenges they face in sustaining income generating activities.

Your donation will allow us to buy a motorbike to extend our reach to rural women who would otherwise have no access to microfinance. Our loan officers' ride up to 70 kilometres on dirt tracks to deliver training, mentoring and loan capital to some of the poorest women in the world. MicroLoan Foundation fosters entrepreneurial spirit and independence, offering a hand up not a hand out.